the patch that got lost

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

This one got lost:

2002-08-17  Marcus Brinkmann  <address@hidden>

        * src/copy.c (copy_internal): Fix author preservation code.

--- fileutils-4.1.10.old/src/copy.c     Fri Jun 21 14:07:40 2002
+++ fileutils-4.1.10/src/copy.c Sat Aug 17 20:42:40 2002
@@ -1517,11 +1517,17 @@ copy_internal (const char *src_path, con
 #if HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_AUTHOR
   /* Preserve the st_author field.  */
   {
-    file_t file = getdport (dst_path);
-    if (file_chauthor (file, src_sb.st_author))
-      error (0, errno, _("failed to preserve authorship for %s"),
-            quote (dst_path));
-    mach_port_deallocate (mach_task_self (), file);
+    file_t file = file_name_lookup (dst_path, O_NORW, 0);
+    if (file == MACH_PORT_NULL)
+      error (0, errno, _("failed to lookup file %s"), quote (dst_path));
+    else
+      {
+       int err = file_chauthor (file, src_sb.st_author);
+       if (err)
+         error (0, err, _("failed to preserve authorship for %s"),
+                quote (dst_path));
+       mach_port_deallocate (mach_task_self (), file);
+      }
   }
 #endif